johnzo

The other day I was parking at a shopping mall here in Seattle. I saw a Jeep that had two bumper stickers: One was about membership in the National Tactical Officers Association. This is a training association for tactical cops -- SWAT and the like. The second bumper sticker is one that's commonly available on the Internet. It says in English and Arabic "keep back 100 meters or you will be shot." Stickers like it were used in Iraq. I can't be certain about what the Jeep's owner meant by putting that bumper sticker on his vehicle. Maybe they just hate tailgaters. But I sure don't want a cop with a "keep 100 meters back or die" mindset doing policing around me.

I would rather live through a century of continuous Roughrider Grey Cup championships than see a single Toronto Stanley Cup. Leaf fans are way more insufferable than Roughrider fans.

My favorite part of this play is how Willy used the umpire as a downfield blocker on that play, it looked very deliberate the way he made the last cut before hitting the endzone.

At some point sports reporting turned into sports gossip reporting. There's too many news outlets trying to report on too little news. Try going to the slam sports homepage and finding actual game results or sports stories. It's all who-said-what and who's-going-bankrupt and trolling about contentious stuff. It's all total ****, but I guess that's what gets the page views.

Rogers Center is too small for the NFL. Toronto would have to build a new football-only stadium to house a team.

Happy for the people of Buffalo. They support their team like crazy and deserve to have it long-term.

Man, just reading that I can close my eyes and see that exact play. Heartbreaking.

For what it's worth, I remember hearing the whistle on my crappy stream, so TSN had the field mic'd up right to catch it. It's strange TSN did not play an audio replay of it during the broadcast although Cuthbert and Suitor reported that their producers confirmed there was a whistle on the play. Gotta confirm that tonight with USA's youtubes...

You're really underselling Durant's smarts. Look at his numbers over his career, his TD:INT ratio has gotten better each year he's been in the league, especially during the last few years. His decision-making has really improved. He's clearly not just getting by on his physical tools. I think it's really tough to forecast player development. Willy does a ton of great stuff already, he escapes pressure, he finds the open man, but he also throws a ton of picks and he's got this weird obsession with questionable corner-route throws in the red zone. Is he ever going to clean up those parts of his game? Who can say? I don't think I'd trade Willy for Durant straight-up either, because I'm an optimist and I think that Willy will clean up the messy parts of his game, and that we'll get more good years out of Willy than we would out of Durant. But I think Durant is a great QB in this league and should be respected as such.

Dude I love Willy but this is crazy talk. Durant was nearly perfect in the playoffs last year -- I think he went 10:1 in TDS:picks.

As a fan of the whole league, I hate this news. There's so few good CFL QBs out there and the quality of football played by the have-not teams has been so low, this just sucks.

oh man can you imagine how sweet it would be to have had Milt vs the Riders this year? Brackenridge blitz = Milt gone for six. Kinda silly to think about, but a guy can dream...

I was really surprised there wasn't a major foul or worse called against Turner on that play. A QB gets smoked after the whistle has blown? I figured that was an automatic call. I guess the officials decided to give him a pass because the only guy who heard the whistle was the guy who was supposed to be blocking Turner.

The crazy thing is that Willy still put up 360 yards with such an underwhelming receiving crew. And he spread the ball around really well, he was doing a great job at finding the open man.Call me crazy but after ten weeks I think the guy is the best QB we've had here since Dunigan. He's doing a great job with far less support than Khari had. He's leading the league in passing yardage (and yeah I know everyone else has a game in hand but he's got a healthy 350-400 yard lead over his competition, so it's not a phony stat.)

When I talk about blocking people on chat, it's not because I think they warrant bans from the site. It's because every time there's a setback in the game, no matter how minor, some people wail like mourners at a mob funeral and that drowns out the cool people I want to discuss the game with. Just a personal preference thing.

I've gotta figure out how to use AdBlocker to block people in the game day chat.

I want a mean high-energy tackle machine MLB like a J.C. Sherritt or a Solomon Elimimian or a 2011 Joe Lobendahn or an in-his-prime Mike O'Shea. While I'm writing you, Santa, I also want enough Canadian talent on the OL so we can go all-import on our front seven.

Nice job, iso. What do you do to stay in shape? I used to run but the 40yo knees won't take the pounding anymore. Nowadays I swim laps 3x a week and I can't believe how awesome I feel afterwards.

Yeah, I get a lot of weird looks and double takes when I wear my big-W sweatshirt around here. People think I'm wearing knockoff Husky gear made by a colorblind bootlegger.

They've got a little 2-game win streak going vs. the East, big test next week vs. Edmonton.

Yeah, I like the plain numbers and the darker green that looks very close to the 80s Eskimo dynasty colors. Get rid of the hockey logo and they'd be pretty good. Fumble aside, Nichols put up some good numbers tonight. Is he signed for next season?

Seven to five? I've been watching the CFL for thirty+ years and I don't remember a score as bad as that. Those poor fans in Ottawa. Pretty sweet fake FG on the highlights tho.

(watching for the first time) Oh, that corner route again. It's 2-for-9 with one pick now, by my count. ...and a Nick Moore fumble in the red zone. This is not Labor Day, it's Groundhog Day. At least we recovered it. Perhaps we need to have a designated fumble-recovery specialist trailing Moore on all his deep patterns. Holy cow, Grigsby broke two tackles on his way to the endzone!

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Drug use -- well, a lot of people use drugs and that's their private business. But shoplifting, whoah, that has a whiff of desperation to me, that he's in a real bad place. Good luck to him getting things sorted out.